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Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stone Magazine: Ripples from the Stone

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 25 March 1969

FEW REVIEWS can make a first-rank artist doubt his ability at the height of his success. At this level, critics can rarely do more than ...

Dear Charlie... Love, Lester

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, Excerpts from letters to Charlie Gillett, 1971

CREEM,187 South Woodward Avenue, Suite 203Birmingham, Michigan 48011(313) 642-8833[Autumn 1971] ...

Mick Farren: Rock Rebel with a Cause

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 28 August 1971

TWENTY-SIX-year-old Mick Farren, ex-singer with the Deviants, writer, political activist and spokesman for the underground, has been called many things. However, he prefers to define ...

Rock Critics Rule... and other startling musical revelations!

Special Feature by J. Montague Fitzpatrick, Coast, April 1973

Or: how Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Chet Flippo, Nick Tosches, Robot A. Hull, Lenny Kaye, Richard Meltzer, Mike Saunders, Gene Sculatti, Ed Ward and 26 ...

Angry Samoans, Vom: The Metal Mike Saunders Interview

Interview by Gary Sperrazza!, Big Star, Spring 1978

In the early '70s, Mike Saunders was one of the leading and best writers around, especially when he was writing about the topics most near ...

Lester Bangs, Blondie: Everyone's a rock critic: The lost Lester Bangs interview

Interview by uncredited writer, unpublished, 1980

FOLLOWING the release of Blondie, Lester Bangs was interviewed for a radio program called News Blimp. A copy of the tape was sent to me ...

Barry D. Kramer 1943-1981

Obituary by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1981

(On January 29 CREEM publisher and founder Barry Kramer died at 37, just as we were going to press. Our business is words, but they ...

Lester Bangs: 1948-1982

Obituary by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1982

  NEW YORK CITY ...

Lester Bangs: Liberation Critic

Essay by Richard Riegel, Throat Culture, 1990

JAMMED INTO that soft-sided suitcase of guilts I've carried with me into my forties is the dull-but-persistent ache that I "owed" Lester Bangs a letter ...

Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The, Stooges, The: Nick Kent: Hack From The Brink

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994

Wanna find out where MM acquired its taste for livid purple prose? Then let PAUL LESTER introduce you to legendary rock journalist NICK KENT, whose ...

Bruce Springsteen: Fred Goodman: The Mansion on the Hill (Times Books, $25)

Book Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 6 March 1997

BABY, YOU'RE A RICH MAN A new book explores how rock & roll became a $20 billion business ...

Rock 100: Um, What Was It We Wanted To Say?

Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Cooper Square (reissue), 1999

Introduction to the Second Edition David Dalton & Lenny Kaye, June 15, Very Late Twentieth Century ...

Lester Bangs: Rock 'n' Roll was the Big Bang

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, July 2000

FOR A LONG time, its shockwaves obliterated thought altogether. That was the great thing about it: it was anti-matter, it vaporized everything that wasn’t immediate, ...

Know Your NME!

Book Excerpt by Paul Gorman, Sanctuary Press, 2001

Paul Gorman's In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press (Sanctuary Press) was an oral history of rock journalism in Britain and America – ...

Lester Bangs: Cum on Read The Noise: An Interview with former Creem writer Robert Duncan

Interview by Steven Ward, rockcritics.com, October 2001

ROCK CRITIC Robert Duncan, a second generation Creem writer — he joined the magazine in the mid-'70s — is also the author of The Noise: Notes From a ...

Deviants, The, Mick Farren: Mick Farren on the Deviants, Fantasy Fiction and Blowing Things Up

Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA Weekly, 23 November 2001

PUBLISHING MOGUL Felix Dennis was staring at the Caribbean Sea a few months ago, sucking down cocktails with fellow gazillionaires at Basil's Bar on the ...

Rolling Stone's Nathan Brackett Snubs Breakfast Reviews, Predicts Klezmer Kraze

Interview by Jason Gross, rockcritics.com, June 2002

Perfect Sound Forever founder/editor Jason Gross interviews Rolling Stone's reviews editor. ...

Patti Smith: The MOJO Interview: Patti Smith

Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, July 2004

Working in a piss factory, breaking her neck on stage,
the "horror" of her armpit
hair. All this plus punk poetry,
tragedy and "gentleman"
Bill Burroughs in the amazing ...

Patti Smith: What does Arthur Rimbaud, the enfant terrible of French symbolism, have in common with Patti Smith?

Report and Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 October 2007

MOST PEOPLE'S MINDS, as they enter their sixties, probably turn to thoughts of retirement and a sedate glide along the gentle lower slopes of life's ...

Sour CREEM: The life, death, and strange resurrection of America's only rock 'n' roll magazine, Part 1

Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 16 January 2008

ALMOST FAMOUS was probably the big bang that finally pushed it over the top. Doesn't matter that director Cameron Crowe — a former CREEM and ...